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A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Ameri...
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"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement...
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There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth...
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Mort is a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous n...
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Equal Rites The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his collea...
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...Raising Steam
Published in 2013, Raising Steam is the latest novel in Terry Pratchett's famous and long-running Discworld series. With the publication of this book Pratchett is now up to 40 Discworld books, and that leaves out all the young adult books and collaborative works he has done over the years.
-- The Plot --
Set after the events of his last book, Snuff, Raising Steam introduces some...

New characters but remembers the old Discworld, parodies modern business

Not for newcomers, few tired ideas (e.g. igors)

...I've been reading Terry Pratchett's Discworld series for over ten years now, though of late I've got a little behind - with Terry still writing at quite a rate, and demands of university limiting my time (the last thing I want when I leave the library is another book!)
It was only at Christmas that I acquired 'Going Postal', the 29th instalment in the series (first published October 2004...

...I am a real fan of Terry Pratchett and collect his books and I think I have read them all and his humour and writting talent shines through in all of his books in fact I'd go as far to say there isn't a book of his that I haven't enjoyed and this one although a little different from the other books is just as enjoyable.
This book is slightly larger that a paperback and is illustrated by Paul...